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FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) (www.theverge.com)
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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 53 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Most receivers already use GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and beidou.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also QZSS, but that's just GPS not run by US (it uses GPS signalling, but it's designed to look directly down when over a small arc of Japan (which covers Tokyo) so you can get more accurate GPS inside the 'urban valley'

We get slightly better GPS in Australia (esp. Adelaide) due to it too, since the other end of the orbit is over AU.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 7 points 3 days ago

We see it over the pole here in Sweden too!